Year: 2012

IMPORTANT: Always perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO: It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this – directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported state if anything goes wrong. There are situations where…

IMPORTANT: Always perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO: It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this – directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported state if anything goes wrong. There is a Rule which…

In some environment, depending on the TimeZone settings – most important of all Daylight Saving, you may get this error message when you try to create a Calendar in the Service Manager 2012 Console which can also be seen in the Event Log: Application: System Center Service Manager Application Version: 7.5.1561.0 Severity: Error Message: Value…

Something strange happened recently where we tried to install OM 2012 Reporting, but that failed with the follwing error message logged into the installation log file: Warn: :Message:SRSPolicySetter SoapException Exception: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: The user or group name ‘{2537B367-6D74-4110-B0B5-1F51C1B1B09E}’ is not recognized. —> Microsoft.ReportingServices.Diagnostics.Utilities.UnknownUserNameException: The user or group name ‘{2537B367-6D74-4110-B0B5-1F51C1B1B09E}’ is not recognized. at Microsoft.ReportingServices.WebServer.ReportingService2005Impl.SetSystemPolicies(Policy[] Policies) at…

PLEASE WATCH: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/MMS/2013/SD-B312 A lot of Service Manager environments (2010 or 2012) suffer from bad performance because of to many entity changes. Let me explain how this works: To best explain, we will take an out of the box relationship: System.WorkItemAffectedUser <RelationshipType id=”System.WorkItemAffectedUser” accessibility=”Public” abstract=”false” base=”System!System.Reference”> <Source id=”IsCreatedForUser” MinCardinality=”0″ MaxCardinality=”2147483647″ type=”System.WorkItem” /> <Target id=”RequestedWorkItem” MinCardinality=”0″ MaxCardinality=”1″ type=”System!System.User” /></RelationshipType>…

If you ever find yourself in the situation where you notice (Alerts in the console or Operations Manager event log on an agent) that an agent is not able to successfully execute some scripts you should check locally on the agent in the Operations Manager event log to see if you get the Warning level…

Well first of all I really encourage you to upgrade to OM 2012 because it really brings a lot of features and fixes as well as cool integration with the other System Center 2012 products. Now thinking about a product which is very complex, also supports localization and allows a lot of flexibility and extensibility,…

IMPORTANT: Allways perform a FULL Backup of the database before doing anything to it !!! ALSO: It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this – directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported state if anything goes wrong. Installed System Center Orchestrator…

IMPORTANT: Allways perform a FULL Backup of the databases before doing anything to it !!! ALSO: It is advised that you open a case at Microsoft before doing this – directly editing the database is not supported and you may find yourself in an unsupported state if anything goes wrong. You may notice that…